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And everyone's known for two years that Blair was going to run. If Riemer were even remotely intelligent, he would have seized first mover advantage in the announcement. Riemer is still way beyond his depth as a county council member (even after doing it for 10 years), and Elrich, as ineffective as he is, will be very effective in embarrassing Riemer based solely on Riemer's legislative record.

What makes Blair better? He has a more coherent economic plan. Riemer thinks we can get enough housing by subsidizing expensive high-rise development. Blair has a more inclusive housing plan and seems to understand that [b]we won't add housing unless we add jobs[/b].[/quote]

I'm hoping that this is not what he's saying, because if it is, that's not a coherent housing plan. There is a housing shortage in Montgomery County right now, whether we add jobs or not.[/quote]

That's actually what planning -- including Casey Anderson -- has said repeatedly. Planning has approved a lot of units that have not yet been permitted because developers think the MoCo market is soft. When it comes to high-density housing, they're clearly right, and it was soft even before the pandemic. That's why so many developers came back late in their projects to request density reduction or conversion to short-term rentals, and why so many others have asked for extensions. The private sector won't build housing unless we add jobs, and the private sector won't build low income (beyond the inadequate minimums), which makes Riemer's advocacy to subsidize expensive market rate construction all the more puzzling.[/quote]

A "soft" real estate market with sky-high rents and housing prices, and bidding wars? How's that work?[/quote]

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